Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview: 15 Insider Secrets from a Top-Level Recruiter
by Evan Pellett
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Pub Date Dec 13 2016 | Archive Date Jan 27 2017
Blackstone Audio | Blackstone Publishing
Description
If you are looking to land a new job in 2017, Evan Pellett’s CRACKING THE CODE TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW: 15 Insider Secrets from a Top Level Recruiter [Blackstone Publishing; December 13, 2016; paperback original, e-book, and audiobook] arrives in perfect time this December. Featured on CBS and WBZ Radio, Pellett is a keynote guest speaker on Nightside with Dan Rea. You may have heard Pellett as the radio expert on interviewing across the United States. This guide also makes the perfect gift to give job-seekers, graduates, or a friend or family member returning to the work force. CRACKING THE CODE TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW provides a fresh insider-view of the hiring process and a powerful plan for interview success in eight detailed steps. Author Evan Pellett, award-winning corporate recruiter, includes exercises for preparation and practice and a healthy dose of inspiration.
In CRACKING THE CODE TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW, Evan Pellett offers job-seekers an insider-view of the hiring process from his perspective as an award-winning recruiter who has spent a career facing interview hopefuls from the other side of the desk. Pellett, who has recruited for tech giant Oracle and others, breaks down the interview process by revealing the inner workings of a hiring manager’s mind: the unconscious motivations, fears, hopes, and the “questions behind the questions” that drive all-important hiring decisions.
Pellett’s unique system is easy to understand in eight steps that help those seeking a new job or promotion stand out in today’s competitive job market. CRACKING THE CODE TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW includes advice on job research and interview preparation, specific instructions on what to say and do during the interview, and guidelines for writing a stand-out résumé. These practices work equally well in any industry and apply whether the reader is a first-time job seeker, a seasoned executive, someone switching jobs or industries, or a returnee to the workforce. Each chapter includes a worksheet with exercises to put the eight-step plan into action. Throughout, readers will find examples, motivation, and inspiration to help them stay on the path to career advancement and a more fulfilling future.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Superb guide with a proven, unique method that will aid you in landing the job.”
–Robin Ryan, bestselling author of 60 Seconds & You’re Hired
“Superb guide with a proven, unique method that will aid you in landing the job.”
–Robin Ryan, bestselling author of 60 Seconds & You’re Hired
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781441700537 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Lisa H, Reviewer
Loved this book. Found it very helpful, so helpful it bagged me a fantastic job. Will be bragging about this book to everyone when its published.
Randy P, Educator
Some really good pointers in this book. As an educator that helps students prepare for interviews, this book is helpful.
Bent H, Reviewer
In many ways, Evan Pellet does a lot of the right things with this book. The "insider secrets" promised in the subtitle of the book are not all super secret, but rather common sense - but some of the tips are indeed really good insights to consider when preparing for a job interview.
Some of the priorities and tips in the book are quite subjective, and while they may work in some settings and company cultures, I seriously doubt that they are universally applicable (e.g. calling a prospective hiring manager every day for weeks or sending handwritten thank you notes to everybody you meet in the interview process from the receptionist to the CEO).
There is too much bragging in the book for my taste. Awards and sales figures may be crucial in certain settings, but in others they seem pompous and inflated, and I - a hiring manager in a research institution myself - would most often disqualify an applicant who puts as much emphasis on this as Pellet suggests. That cost the fifth star in my rating book.
The book loses the fourth rating star in the last fifth of the book when Pellet takes it upon himself to become a life coach and nutritional counsellor. I simply don't see how spiritual breathing exercises, vitamins and alcohol consumption belongs in a book about job interviews. Maybe Pellet considers himself an expert on these matters, but then write a separate book on that in stead.
Summing up, Pellet does a really good job sharing "insider secrets", and both experienced professionals as well as people fresh out of school can learn things from the book.
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